Interstellar: Start as a cleaner.

Chapter 1268 Apocalyptic Scene (5200+ words)

"War alert!" The empire was shaken!
This level of alert falls under the category of war alerts.

This means that the administrative planet encountered an energy attack of strategic weapon level.

The intelligent surveillance system will issue war alerts nationwide.

Ministerial level in the Imperial Ministry of Defense and Homeland Security!
Imperial Senate members, House of Representatives members, Imperial Elders—everyone's smartwatches simultaneously issued war alerts.

The emperor of the Blue Ocean Empire was also startled when he received the war alert immediately!
Then I saw the detailed data!
It showed that at a certain coordinate on Devon, an energy fluctuation of strategic weapon level occurred.

Everyone, get moving!

Yang Bo watched as the enormous mushroom cloud shot into the sky!

The amount of radiation left behind after a hydrogen bomb explosion is very small.

The hydrogen bomb relies mainly on the temperature at its core and the shock wave from the explosion.

The reason Yang Bo did not release the spiritual seed to the three housekeepers.

It's because the three butlers didn't know each other's identities!
Moreover, these three butlers only have a single line of communication within the Red Earl's organization, so releasing the spiritual seed into these three people would not be very effective!

The main reason is that these three people have relatively strong mental strength, so there is a high probability that they will discover if I release a mental seed.

If you want to release spiritual seeds into three people, then you must kill them afterward!

Given the rank of these three individuals, Earl Red must have other means of control!

However, since the three of them had to act together, Yang Bo never had a chance!

Now that two people are dead and one person is still alive, this is a great opportunity!
"Tsk tsk!!" The Roundabout Hotel is tens of kilometers away from the scene of the incident!
Yang Bo looked at the Wandao City, which had been destroyed by the shockwave.

These buildings now look rather dilapidated.

In fact, the main structures of these buildings were not damaged at all; what has been destroyed are mainly some decorative elements.

Like the rare plants grown on the rooftop of the Circle Hotel, and the sky gardens.

However, these decorations are quite valuable, as most of them belonged to the nobility!
Nobles would not use trash as decorations.

Moreover, in terms of value alone, these decorations might be more valuable than the building itself.

Of course, nothing inside the building was damaged.

However, if it's within five kilometers of the center, then it's doomed!

Moreover, Yang Bo started a live stream the moment he controlled the space mech!

The live stream was called: Super Terrorist Attack!
People entering the live stream saw a huge mushroom cloud.

A huge mushroom cloud rose continuously, almost covering the entire sky!

Yang Bo's space mech disguised as Bart also has a space quantum communication module!

Then, through the perspective of the space mech, they saw that the city was in complete disarray.

The viewers in the live stream were stunned. Was Grand Duke Barth participating in a war?
Yang Bo started the live stream to distance himself from the situation.

Moreover, Yang Bo came to the Roundabout Hotel to be with Su Ruoxin in order to clear himself of any wrongdoing.

Yang Bo's live stream quickly attracted the attention of intelligence agencies from three countries, because Yang Bo had firsthand information.

Horrible!

Moreover, the further you go into the middle, the more severe the damage to the buildings becomes.

There are still many flying cars on the ground escaping this place.

The nobles living in Wandao City are now cursing and swearing.

"The epicenter of this incident should be the same area where the previous two terrorist attacks occurred!"

"Based on the energy fluctuations, a secondary explosion occurred."

"One should be a super hydrogen bomb, and the other should be an antimatter bomb." Yang Bo, disguised as Bart, controlled the mecha towards the explosion center while analyzing the collected explosion energy fluctuations. He also used the mecha's detectors to analyze the dust and radiation within the entire explosion range!

Moreover, everyone can see these analyses, and then the system directly compares them with the data in the database.

The upper echelons of the empire are now in complete chaos!

Because the explosion was incredibly powerful!

Now everyone can only watch Bart's live stream to find out what happened.

The closer Bart's space mech got to the center of the explosion, the louder the nobles' curses grew.

Because many nobles own villas in Wandao City.

The villas at the epicenter of the explosion are now severely damaged.

Bart's mech activated multiple scanning modes.

We are currently 10 kilometers away from the blast radius.

The villas here were severely damaged, and even the drone police system built among them was destroyed because the energy impact of the explosion far exceeded the maximum protection value of these systems.

Then Bart's mech gradually approached the center of the explosion. Within a five-kilometer radius of the explosion's center, the villas were basically destroyed, with most of them deformed by the immense force!

Bart's mech has detected a person!

Yang Bo's route will take him past the locations where the three Red Earl's butlers attacked!

When Yang Bo chose the super hydrogen bomb, he took into account the location of the three people who were going to attack!
The location where these three men attacked was only two kilometers away from Zhang Sen's villa!

Because if the attack is carried out from too far away, it may be intercepted midway.

The three men took out their space mechs at the designated location, set them to unmanned mode, and then used unmanned mechs to carry antimatter bombs!
The antimatter bomb will completely destroy Zhang Sen's villa.

However, this antimatter bomb has a relatively small impact on the surrounding area, and the location of the three people is an absolutely safe position.

Although the three of them had given themselves some time, they couldn't use their superpowers to escape quickly.

Because excessively strong superpowers will attract the attention of the planetary surveillance system.

The drone was supposed to launch its attack only after the three people had retreated to four kilometers!

That way, the group can easily escape!
But unexpectedly, Yang Bo, that old sixth brother, directly used a super hydrogen bomb with a destructive range of five kilometers!

Before the three people could react, two of them were killed.

Another lucky one was right behind a building.

The building was deformed by the direct destruction caused by the super hydrogen bomb!
The remaining one is nutritionist Julie.

"Calling for the escape pod! Calling for the escape pod!" Yang Bo stopped the mecha and saw Julie, who was buried and only had one leg left. So, while calling for the escape pod, Yang Bo quickly used the space mecha to clear away the buried things!
Then Yang Bo discovered that Julie, who was unconscious, had her clothes torn to shreds by the shockwave.

Jolie is wearing a high-end protective suit, which is a type of personal protective equipment developed by the Alliance.

It uses a new type of composite material that can effectively resist physical damage as well as radiation damage.

This personal protective equipment was originally intended for residents, enabling them to travel between stars.

Yang Bo took the opportunity to plant the seed of emotion in Julie!
Then Yang Bo discovered that this Julie was actually one of the main people in charge of the Red Earl in the Alliance.

Julie has a head steward above her, and Julie also has contact with the Countess!
"Tsk tsk!!"

"I'm just so lucky!" Yang Bo chuckled to himself.

Then Yang Bo controlled the space mech to continue deeper into the depths.

Whether Julie is dead or alive is no longer important, as long as I've already given her coordinates!
The epicenter of the explosion was like the end of the world. Within the destructive area of ​​the hydrogen bomb, the villas were melted by the extremely high temperatures and super shockwave.

Under high temperature and pressure, there was also a super shock wave that directly destroyed these villas, with some villas being uprooted!

Zhang Sen's villa in the very center has disappeared, and there is a huge pit on the ground with a diameter of 1 kilometer and a depth of 300 meters!
The viewers in the live stream only realized what was happening at that moment.

Then the whole world was reporting on the terrorist attack on Devon.

The Empire declared a nationwide state of emergency!
Then the viewers in the live stream noticed that Bart's space mech had discovered something suspicious!
These are components that emit relatively high levels of antimatter radiation.

According to the scan of the mecha, these are some mecha parts.

Five minutes after Bart's mech entered the explosion's epicenter, the first batch of drones from the surveillance fleet entered.

Because all of these drones were deployed from space.

First, a drone rescued Julie.

Then the drones will conduct a deep scan to see if there are any people who need rescue!
Then they collected suspicious parts from Batou's space mech scans!

Yang Bo strolled around for a bit and then returned to the Roundabout Hotel!

That's when I noticed that Bart's watch had received a lot of messages.

There are Ning Xue, Bai Lu, and Hong Xiu.

And there's Malena, and Catherine.

Ning Jiansheng. Su Ruoxin, Allen's!
Be careful, everyone!
In addition, the elders' council notified me of a meeting.

Yang Bo put away the space mecha on the top floor of the Roundabout Hotel.

Allen's face was grim because the rooftop gardens above the Circle Hotel, a major selling point of the hotel, which featured rare plants sourced from all over the world, had now been destroyed.

Some say that rare plants in the interstellar era are nothing special.

That's true in theory, but plants have a lifespan.

For the same variety of plant, the value of a seedling is completely different from that of a mature plant that is decades old!
Moreover, even within the same variety, different shapes result in different values.

Rare plants still require constant pruning by humans to maintain their shape.

"Sigh!" Yang Bo also sighed, because insurance companies usually don't pay out in this situation unless you've purchased special war insurance!
"These terrorists are absolutely outrageous! I don't know what those bastards in the Imperial Security Department are even doing!"

"The losses this time are too great!" Allen sighed. All the glass in the entire Circus Hotel was damaged, as were the exterior walls and the gardens on the roof!
A complete replacement would cost a lot of money!
"Hehe!!" Yang Bo chuckled!
"I need to go back to the elders' council!"

"I don't know who's going to clean up this mess!" Yang Bo then left the Roundabout Hotel!
Catherine is in another private laboratory in Bart.

I've been eagerly anticipating the explosion of the super hydrogen bomb that Bart mentioned these past few days.

Because Catherine knew what would happen to the Red Earl if the super hydrogen bomb exploded.
Of course, this also completely erased his original identity and all traces of Zhang Sen.

Catherine felt that anyone who went up against Bart would only lose.

Catherine was working out in the lab's gym this morning when she received an internal alarm from the lab.

Even in this highly protected laboratory, there was a slight vibration.

So Catherine quickly checked the news!

But the news didn't report it, and then the watch prompted Bart to start a live broadcast.

So Catherine sent Bart a message of concern.

Because he has been given a new life, and he will have to rely on Bart for the rest of his life.

Catherine had a clear idea: as long as she pleased Bart, she could have anything she wanted.

Seeing the villa he lived in in the live stream, now there's no trace of it!
Catherine breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Catherine also vaguely felt a sense of vengeful pleasure.

Because he was being chased like this by the Red Earl's men.

This time, it's unknown how many of the Red Earl's butlers or similar personnel died.

Furthermore, Catherine strongly suspects that the person Bart rescued in the middle was the Red Earl's butler, and that Bart most likely left him alive on purpose.

Seeing this, Catherine became even more excited, because the Red Earl was about to face endless trouble!
The more trouble the Red Earl caused, the more comfortable Catherine felt.

Catherine's prediction was correct. The moment the coordinates of the explosion were revealed, the Imperial high command unanimously suspected that the Red Earl was behind it!

Then, upon seeing Zhang Sen's vanished villa, these people became even more certain.

So after Yang Bo returned to Bart's manor, he first faced the concern of Ning Xue and the other two, and then went online to hold an elders' meeting!

The virtual meeting room was completely silent!
When Bart entered the virtual conference room, everyone looked over.

"This is our corrupt empire!"

"I wonder which nobleman deserves this credit!"

"Perhaps this is just the beginning for Devonstar!"

"Next time it might be the capital!" Yang Bo's tone was full of sarcasm!
The other grand dukes remained silent, because they shared the same concerns!

The emperor of the Blue Water Empire has been feeling terrible lately, with one trouble after another, both at home and in the country!

Sometimes the emperor of the Blue Empire feels he really wants to retire!

"The authorities will investigate this matter as soon as possible."

"By tracing the origin of the bombs, we can find the manufacturers that produced them." What else could the Emperor of the Blue Ocean Empire say but this?

"Aren't we going to hold anyone accountable?"

"The first country in our empire to suffer an attack by terrorists and a super hydrogen bomb!"

“The world record has been broken!” another grand duke exclaimed.

The last person to hold the world record was March Star. Of course, March Star was said to have been a nuclear bomb explosion, but it was actually a nuclear battery.

That one is much less powerful than this one!

"I suggest allocating a special construction fund to Devon Star to help it overcome this disaster!" another Grand Duke said.
"I object!"

"Everyone knows perfectly well who owns those buildings in the blast zone!"

"Besides, when I was attacked before, no one compensated me?" Yang Bo immediately rejected this idea.

The Grand Duke could no longer bring up the matter.

Because if this goes on, who knows how many more old stories this bastard Bart will bring up!

Seeing that no one else was bringing it up, Yang Bo also fell silent.

Because we definitely need to give everyone an explanation for this matter.

Given how serious this incident has occurred, Yang Bo doesn't need to say much more from above, because everyone knows what this means!
"If there's nothing else to say, I'll get back to work!" Yang Bo noticed the strange atmosphere at the elders' council meeting today, and left after saying that.

"I also have other things to do. Let me know when you have a result!"

"I also have other matters to attend to. Let me know when there are any results." The other grand dukes also left with this remark.

The deeper meaning of this statement is that we must have a result.

In contrast to the tranquility of the Elders' Council!
The Imperial Senate and the House of Representatives were filled with indignation.

Inside the House of Representatives, some members even directly shouted: "Crack down hard on the Red Earl organization!"

"This is the Red Earl Organization's act of war against the Empire!"

"You cowards!"

"The people in the Imperial Homeland Security Department should eat shit. They actually allowed terrorist organizations to launch a war against our Empire."

"The Imperial military are all eunuchs, all castrated men without testicles!"

"His Majesty is old!" Anyway, these councilors can say whatever they want without ever being guilty!
The reason these lawmakers were so outraged was mainly because the epicenter of the explosion was the area where the aristocratic villas were located.

Some are family-owned villas, where family members can stay when they go to Devon Star for fun.

Moreover, even outside the epicenter of the explosion, the villas suffered damage, especially their meticulously maintained gardens!

To be honest, the main structure of the villa wasn't expensive; it was the exterior decorations and the garden that were truly priceless treasures!
It was directly destroyed by the shockwave of the hydrogen bomb!

This caused these nobles great distress!

Because the garden was a symbol of a nobleman's status, noblemen would take a stroll in the garden when visiting someone's home.

If a family's garden was particularly bad, it would become the subject of gossip among the nobility.

These nobles have indeed lost a lot of things, so of course they are indignant!
Moreover, this is a blatant slap in the face to all the nobles and to the empire!
Of course, these nobles were worried that the Red Earl's organization might use the same attack methods in other attacks in the future!

The empire's vast intelligence network has begun to operate!
The Imperial Ministry of Homeland Security, the Imperial Military, the Imperial Military Intelligence Department, and the Imperial Special Operations Department formed an emergency special task force, whose leader was the Emperor of the Blue Ocean Empire.

The order to blockade the customs at Devonstar was issued immediately.

Grand Duke Golden Oak was not worried at all, because the two people who attacked Bart had already arrived on Devon!

Grand Duke Golden Oak had no idea that this was also an operation by the Red Earl.

The Red Earl's organizational structure is indeed excellent, as it involves single-line communication!
However, there is also the possibility of task duplication and conflict.

The first suspect has surfaced!

Julie discovered her identity the moment she was rescued.

Her location was incorrect, and she was carrying equipment that appeared to be related to a spatial box.

That's even more wrong, because the space box is extremely expensive, and it's not something a nutritionist like her can afford.

They quickly discovered that two other men in the tour group were also quite close to Julie!
Public security cameras spotted the three people disappearing towards the area where the incident occurred!
Then, through public surveillance cameras, it was discovered that two other people also had equipment that appeared to be spatial boxes.

The military deployed countless unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft actually found the space box equipment used by two other people!
Of course, at this point we can only say that these few people are suspects.

The high command in the Empire is under immense pressure right now, because the whole world is waiting for a result!
Meanwhile, Yang Bo had already returned to Bart's territory. Using Bart's identity, Yang Bo anonymously created an account on a hacker forum and then transmitted the relevant data of the bionic bird to the forum, offering a reward for finding the bug in this bionic bird.

This was prepared for Yang Bo's original identity.

This was the trigger that destroyed the Grand Duke of Golden Oak's industrial empire.

"Fight me!"

"I'm quite curious about who this countess is," Yang Bo thought to himself.
(End of this chapter)